After her death, the boy ran away from home and was never seen by his family again. That woman turned out to be Midori's aunt. It turns out that ten years before, his father cheated on his mother with another woman. Girls that meet him also tell their friends about him obsessively, causing more girls to become curious about him. He has an unnatural influence on any girl that asks him a question, causing them to follow his advice without question and later to kill themselves out of despair.

He is seemingly killed by the ghosts of the girls who played the game and the Intersection Bishounen, but in the end, he becomes the White-Clothed Pretty Boy, who spreads happiness to girls playing the game.Ī handsome, black-clothed man who wanders the streets searching for girls playing intersection fortune telling. After finding out more details about the Intersection Bishounen and the woman's death, Ryuusuke goes to kill him.

But, his admission causes Midori to meet the Intersection Bishounen, who compels her to emotionally and physically torture him before committing suicide. Eventually, Ryuusuke admits to Midori that he was responsible for her aunt's death. His friend Teshima also spreads the rumor that Ryuusuke is the Intersection Bishounen, which causes him to be the target of obsession by nearly every girl in school. Eventually, he gains the nickname 'Dead Man' due to his increasingly sickly appearance and for being 'responsible for' Reishi's suicide. After Reishi Tanaka commits suicide, Ryuusuke becomes determined to hunt down the Intersection Bishounen and help people playing the game. He has a crush on his friend Midori, but is afraid to tell her that he feels he was responsible for the death of her aunt. Ryuusuke feels horribly guilty about the incident and becomes uneasy when faced with the topic of the game. When he was 6 years old, he upset a woman who was playing intersection fortune telling, which caused her to commit suicide. Ryuusuke is a 16-year-old boy who has moved back to Nanchou-shi after ten years due to his father's job.

2.5 Chapter 5: White Clothed Pretty Boy.

2.1 Chapter 1: The Intersection Bishounen.

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